Not up to much...

I don't really want this to turn into an 'Urbexing' blog but that is mainly what I have been doing, you can see some of the most recent pictures on my Facebook page so I will only post a couple of my 'abstract externals'...

And this one... for the lines;

obviously I shall draw all these...at some point! 
Meanwhile I have started some artwork inspired by all the dilapidation I have been photographing, and although it is in it's very early stages I am not yet in the flow and I think it shows, it definitely doesn't have a direction. I have made the mistake of being a bit too careful and it's stilted but I intend to loosen it up and reflect the messiness by introducing inks and red wine, forgetting about the flat colour, trying to be neat and also the fact that it is for an exhibition and just play with it for a while.

moodboard: 

need to add yellow ochre as I can't seem to live without it

table mess

unfinished - obviously!

A little bit of Urbex...

(Click on image)

Sunday... urban exploring and climbing through window frames into a building with hardly any floors. In the wilds of Hartlepool, whipped by thorny branches and blizzardous rain, this sanctuary of pure broken beauty sheltered me and my Christmas camera...

 

New project... beading a 3 meter length...

This is my New Years Resolution; I started this on my flight to Havana last summer with a secret needle, no scissors (my mini travel tooth floss worked a treat) - then left it mostly alone for the rest of the year. So, anyway, I have to either finish this by February for an exhibition deadline or by the end of 2014 (which is absolutely the most likely)... I have kind of working titled it 'An obsession with distressed architectural surfaces' OR 'An excuse for beading'...

I  intend to post images of my progress regularly (to make me do it) on my Facebook page so please have a look occasionally and help me out when I get stuck!

  

Installation...

I have decided to give you a preview of my 'Contextile' exhibition piece 'Built Up, Broken Down'... due to be unveiled on the opening night in Portugal on the 1st September, if you have read my recent posts you will know I am not going to be there in person due to lack of (any) funds. That's life I guess.

Please let me know what you think of my collar collection, but note...there's still a way to go and life in this project yet... I may rename it - 'Never finished'...